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VANCOUVER – A dangerous offender who posed as a gynecologist and convinced one victim to tattoo a name across her stomach has lost an appeal of several sexual-assault convictions in British Columbia’s highest court.

Kolten Mastronardi was convicted in November 2006 on 12 counts of sexual assault, as well as other charges related to assault, threats, fraud and extortion. He was declared a dangerous offender in June 2012 and given an indeterminate sentence.

Smith said the trial judge did not err in principle or fail to consider relevant factors when dismissing Mastronardi’s severance application. She said the trial judge fairly weighed the risk of prejudice and considered the interests of justice.

“In all of the circumstance, it cannot be said that the ruling resulted in an injustice,” she wrote.

She said with slight variations he presented himself as a member of a Sicilian family that was organized in a Mafia-like manner, a medical doctor and widower seeking a wife. Mastronardi also told his victims his family required submissive wives and the amalgamation of finances, said Smith.

Her ruling said he broke the nose of one victim, sexually assaulted her with the butt end of a knife, and convinced her to tattoo the sentence, “Property of Nicolo Mastronardi,” across her stomach, and in large black letters.

Mastronardi also accused his victims of giving him sexually transmitted infections after examinations and false diagnoses.

Smith said Mastronardi extorted intercourse from a young naive foreign student by threatening to inform her parents and reporting “her ‘crime’ of ‘sexual teasing’ to the immigration authorities and have her deported.”

Mastronardi also defrauded his victims of money and credit, and one lost as much as $55,000, said Smith.